In the meantime, after eliminating the Wudao Naval Army, the punishment fleet slowly approached Jiangchuan Castle and anchored a hundred meters away from the pier, with no intention of docking.

The reason why they don't dock is that they don't touch the water and are afraid of running aground. Once such a large battleship runs aground, it will be a big trouble.

The second is to keep a safe distance, the shore is too deep, it is difficult to ensure that the Japanese people come to take a cold breath, and what losses will be caused. The former soldiers of the Qi family army have seen that the Japanese bows and arrows are still very powerful. And as long as the distance is more than 100 meters, neither their 'iron cannons' nor their bows and arrows can cause damage. The coast guard's Three Emperor Cannons and even the Franc Machine can easily kill people and animals 200 meters away.

Wang Rulong hugged his arms and looked indifferently at the panicked Japanese old and weak women and children in the villages and towns outside the city.

In order to reduce the burden, only men can enter the city to defend the city, and at most some young women are accepted to cook for the defenders as porters. And those old and weak women and children, who were regarded as a burden, could only flee to the mountains and seek shelter, praying for an early end to the battle. Otherwise, they will all starve to death and freeze to death in the mountains.

In fact, he could have ordered the artillery to hunt down these women and children, but once the battle was still long, he had to save ammunition. Second, whether it was Qi Dashuai or Zhao Gongzi, it was strictly forbidden to kill women and children indiscriminately, thinking that it would make the army lose its humanity - a beast army would definitely attack its master in the end.

Childe is even more handsome than handsome. The marshal never showed mercy to the young men of the pirates and thieves, but the prince hoped to capture the captives as much as possible, and then convict them and serve life of hard labor for the Jiangnan group. Maybe this is pure military and ...... The difference between it.

He found that he couldn't define Childe as a person at all. Merchant? Strategists? Scientist? Want to be a man in One Piece?

Wang Rulong smiled bitterly and shook his head, forget it, don't think about it, just follow in the footsteps of Gongzi.

~~

At this time, the suspension bridge in Jiangchuan City slowly rose, indicating that everyone who should enter the city had entered, Wang Rulong waved his hand and ordered the city gate to be destroyed first.

Jiangchuan City is three hundred meters away from the fleet, Hongxi's range is too short, Xuande's power is too small, and the Yongle cannon is the most suitable.

On the 203 ship facing Jiangchuan City, ten Yongle guns on the starboard side fired a salvo, all of which hit the stone wall of the city wall, and not a single shell hit the suspension bridge.

There was laughter from the neighboring ship, and the 202 captain Rong Sheng's face was so angry that his face was like frost, and the gunners on the starboard side were like falling into a refrigerator, and their whole body was cold.

"Come again!" He folded his arms and glared at the group of unassuming things. "It's only 300 meters, and you can't get all the demerits!"

The gunners were all scared. Demerits are terrible, once demerits will be lost when you are promoted, twice you will be demoted, and you will have to get off the boat three times!

The second round of shelling was all carefully aimed, and no one dared to shoot waves, nor did they dare to play a huge salvo.

In fact, simple sights are installed on the guns, and it is enough to aim at this distance. It's just that the deck shakes and shakes, and the muzzle of the gun will shake up and down. Don't look at the amplitude, but the shells fly a few hundred meters away.

Just now, it was affected by the waves, and all of them were high......

This time, they fired one after another, and the hit rate was really much better, and five out of ten shots were hit.

The Yongle cannon was full of power, and when a cannonball hit the suspension bridge, it smashed a big hole in the thick suspension bridge. Five cannons came down, and the suspension bridge was torn apart and fell into the water hori outside the city...... That is, in the moat.

"Nani?" Uku Junyao on the castle tower was stunned, the most critical thing in the cage city battle was not the battle for the city gate? The Ming Dynasty people blew up the suspension bridge, how can they still attack the city, swim through the water hori?

The ashigaru, who were busy carrying the equipment to defend the city, also stopped. Fools can see that the Ming Dynasty people don't plan to attack the city directly, so what's the use of getting a bunch of rolling stones and sasswood?

"Could it be that they want to besiege us?" Yujiu Xuanya guessed: "Because the troops are too small, you have to make this decision?" ”

"Possibly." The young family governor nodded, and said to the group of family elders: "Count the supplies and see how long we can last." ”

Before he finished speaking, he heard a terrible voice outside.

"They will release the firebird and attack the city with fire!" Hearing this, Yu Jiu Xuanya said with two trembling voices: "The people of the Ming Dynasty used this kind of monster to burn our warship!" ”

"Huh?" Yujiu Chunyao looked outside, but couldn't help laughing, it turned out that none of the Divine Fire Flying Crows released by the Ming Dynasty could fly into the castle. Some crashed into the stone wall, and some fell into the water hori.

"Hahaha, what a firebird, it's just a fake bird made of straw, and it can't fly very high!" Chunyao's proud tail is about to go to the sky.

~~

The captains on the opposite side didn't look very good, and the Divine Fire Crow was still too stupid to help this kind of tall castle.

"Change the rocket!" The captains gave a deep order, and the marines who were responsible for releasing the firearms hurriedly collected all the fire crows into the iron box in accordance with the safety regulations, carried them off the deck, and carried back the oilcloth bags.

When I opened the oilcloth bag, there were rockets with arrows more than 5 feet long and gunpowder cartridges attached to them. This is also a kind of long-range firearm that the Qi family army is equipped with in large quantities, and the Japanese are terrified when they see it.

The Marines placed the rocket on a special iron frame, aimed it in the direction of Gangcheon Castle, and lit the lead. Rockets whizzed towards the city.

"it, Congreve Rocket!" On the flagship, Zhao Gongzi, who saw this scene, couldn't help but scream and slapped his eldest nephew's thigh hard.

"What 'carrying a beautiful woman'?" The eldest nephew asked with a grin.

"It's okay, I said Sanskrit, which means that this rocket is very bad." Zhao Gongzi dealt with his eldest nephew, and immediately thought of the prototype of the famous Congreve rocket, isn't it the rocket invented in the Song Dynasty?

Although Daming's rockets are obviously not as ferocious as the Congreve rockets of the early nineteenth century, they are not comparable to the Japanese things that wrap an arrow in a tarpaulin, light it and shoot it with a big bow, and cannot fly dozens of meters.

This is propelled by gunpowder, and the aerodynamic shape is much stronger than that of the Divine Fire Raven. At such a short distance, the Daming rocket could easily pass over the Ishigaki. Although most of the rockets don't know where to go, and only a few of them make it into the city, it's enough to start a fire!

Who made Japan so fond of building houses out of wood? Although the outside of the castle is well fireproof, the inside is full of wooden castle houses, and there are piles of grain and grass everywhere...... They had just been brought in from outside the city.

After a while, thick black smoke rose from Jiangchuan City. Now the lord of the city didn't care about the new things outside the city, and fanned and shouted to hurry up to put out the fire.

Seeing the fire in the city, the Marines were in high spirits. Now they can finally raise their eyebrows and let those gunners who look down on people open their eyes. They continued to release rockets, and the sound of breaking the air continued, and more and more rockets flew into Gangcheon City, constantly causing fires everywhere.

Many rockets landed in the villages and towns outside the city, and the wooden houses of the Japanese were even more on fire, and in the blink of an eye, they became a sea of fire.

Seeing that the 'useless boatmen' were so arrogant, the gunners were naturally not far behind, and they raised their guns one after another and bombarded Jiangchuan City with red-hot firebombs.

Since Chu Liuxiang burst out of the limelight with a red fire, the gunners' fear of this 'braised iron pill' has greatly decreased. In addition, the stove and tongs have been improved and become safer. More and more gunners began to choose to attack with this killing weapon.

The iron stoves that are responsible for heating the iron balls are in short supply.

One after another, red-hot iron bullets were fired, directly smashing the castle tower and rooftops, and falling into the building, causing fires in one place.

In the end, it is unknown whether it was a rocket or a red fire bomb that ignited the barn in the city, and the fire rose into the sky, which could never be extinguished. It was another season when the weather was dry and the west wind was fierce, and the fire spread rapidly, and the entire Jiangchuan City became a big brazier.

In the firelight, thick smoke rolled into the sky with ashes, drifting eastward......

~~

The city of Egawa has become a human purgatory, and people covered in fire are screaming everywhere. The rest of the people were all frightened, and dared to stay in the city, so they quickly escaped through the only city gate, and then stopped abruptly.

The drawbridge is broken, how to cross the river?

Someone shouted loudly, raised a white flag and knelt down to surrender.

But the order had already been given before the war, this is the battle of Liwei, kill the chickens and monkeys, don't take prisoners!

As a result, the guns of the 203 ships facing the city gate opened fire mercilessly, and several shells rushed out of the Japanese and directly hit a string of sugar gourds. Kill a dozen people with one shot!

The pirates either waited inside the city to be burned to death, or rushed to the gates of the city to be shelled and died. Their desperate cries even drowned out the roar of the cannons and reached the ears of the coast guards.

Yet no one will have mercy on them.

Since the Jiajing War, these Japanese naval pirates have frequently invaded the Ming Dynasty, from Liaodong to Fujian, and have been violated by them. Especially in the Jiangnan area, where the Japanese rebellion was most severe, almost every household had people die at the hands of the Japanese invaders. In the past 20 years, he has committed the crimes of burning, killing, raping, humiliating and plundering! Pity them for being a betrayal of their ancestors and an accomplice to sin!

In the end, the entire Egawa Castle collapsed in a raging fire, and the head of the Uku family, Uku Junyao, his younger brother Uku Genya, and more than a dozen family elders collectively disemboweled in the castle tower, once again perfectly interpreting what the spirit of bushido is.

How painful it is to be burned to death, how simple it is to commit suicide, cut it with a fan, painlessly, I don't even feel a little bit, and it will pass in one fell swoop......

In the end, out of more than 2,000 people in the city, only a few lucky people escaped. They escaped artillery fire, swam across the Mizubori, and stumbled into the mountains.

Wang Rulong didn't order the pursuit, so let them be volunteer propagandists, and spread the divine power of the Daming Coast Guard like a prison throughout Kyushu!

From today on, the bloody and debt-ridden Wudao Naval Army has been wiped out. One of the backstage of the Japanese Kou, the Ukuya family, is removed!